Batman: Arkham Asylum
Game » consists of 28 releases. Released Aug 25, 2009
- PlayStation 3
- Xbox 360
- PC
- Xbox 360 Games Store
- + 5 more
- Mac
- PlayStation Network (PS3)
- Ouya
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
Batman: Arkham Asylum puts you behind the cowl of the iconic Dark Knight, fighting his way through Arkham Asylum to stop the Joker from enacting a sinister plot that would have grave consequences for Gotham City.
Goddamn Batman killed my PC
I bought Batman: Arkham Asylum on Steam. I got an error message saying that the "bmlauncher has stopped working".
I've heard this is common for Windows 7 64bit so I ran it from the file location and managed to activate the serial number before it again said "bmlauncher has stopped working".
I went to run it as administrator to see if that worked but when I right-clicked Windows Explorer crashed, then my PC blue screened, now it's giving me a "disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter". I looked at the CMOS and it's not detecting my hard drive...great.
I've unplugged it and am leaving it for a few minutes to see if that helps.
Anyone got any advice for either the Arkham Asylum "bmlauncher" or disk boot failure problems?
It would be much appreciated.
I bought Batman: Arkham Asylum on Steam. I got an error message saying that the "bmlauncher has stopped working".
I've heard this is common for Windows 7 64bit so I ran it from the file location and managed to activate the serial number before it again said "bmlauncher has stopped working".
I went to run it as administrator to see if that worked but when I right-clicked Windows Explorer crashed, then my PC blue screened, now it's giving me a "disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter". I looked at the CMOS and it's not detecting my hard drive...great.
I've unplugged it and am leaving it for a few minutes to see if that helps.
Anyone got any advice for either the Arkham Asylum "bmlauncher" or disk boot failure problems?
It would be much appreciated.
"Clearly, this is the work of Russian Martian Batman. "
damn the cold war invasion fleet
Try resetting the CMOS. If you have a jumper button to reset, hit that. if you don't then just take out the battery and leave it for about a minute. Then put the battery back (in the same orientation it was in when you took it out of course). If that doesn't work try unplugging and then plugging in your hard drive's SATA cable.
Okay so after leaving it unplugged for a while and letting it power down I turned it back on and....
the circuit breaker tripped
okay trying again and....
SUCCESS!
it boots fine and detects my hard drive HUZZAH!
Take that Batman, it seems the dynamic duo has been foiled by me
MWAHAHAHA!
ran batman as administrator and it says initializer for 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager' throws an exception and goes to the menu but goes back to the error message when I hit play.
DAMN YOU BATMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
IMPORTANT : If this is a Windows 7 machine, you could try booting from the Windows 7 CD and electing to do a Repair. That may bring the machine back to a working state.
I tried that, it still gives me the initializer for 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager' throws an exception message
@SeriouslyNow:
Thanks for the advice.
Thankfully leaving it unplugged for a while seemed to get it going again
This is getting annoying
I've tried:
updating drivers
updating .NET framework
updating DirectX
checking game cache integrity
running from the file location
running as administrator
running in compatability mode
I don't know what to do it still won't open the launcher and it still gives me the 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager' error message
CAN SOMEONE HELP?!
" This is getting annoying I've tried: updating drivers updating .NET framework updating DirectX checking game cache integrity running from the file location running as administrator running in compatability mode I don't know what to do it still won't open the launcher and it still gives me the 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager' error message CAN SOMEONE HELP?! "When all else fails, uninstall/redownload/reinstall.
Have fun.
@Mars_Cleric
said:It sucks, but something might not have downloaded correctly so even though the verifier didn't fix it for whatever reason, maybe re-downloading the whole thing might get it going agian." @Rockdalf: It's 8GB though it's just really annoying, surely I'm not the only one to have this error "
You don't have fraps or EVGA precision running or anything like that by any chance? For some reason Just Cause 2 started crashing after I upgraded to Windows 7 and found out something was conflicting with EVGA Precision running in the background, so once I shut that down, all was well again.
Hope that helps. No one should be deprived of their Batman.
I don't think so
I may give in and try redownloading but I'm gonna try transfering it to my laptop and see if I get the same error
Okay it runs on my laptop, what the hell
@bio595:
yeah I got the latest version and still nothing :(
If I can pass the specs by this much I should be able to play it
" anyone have any help getting Batman running on Windows 7 64bit? "Sorry all I can offer is that I never had problems running the game myself in 7 64bit so it might be something other than the game that's causing your problems.
"lmfao you just made my day (night but whatever)My grandpa's bmlauncher has stopped working the other day too.
"
No luck
still get the same error message
I think it's either: Windows 7, the fact that it's 64bit, the graphics card drivers, or directx 11
Seriously considering partitioning my drive and setting up a "Batman Segment" running XP or Vista and try to get it working that way
Edit:
If I uninstall PhysX I get a different error message, I then get it to install the version of PhysX it wants and...
I get the original error message
POW!
THWACK!
GODDAMNITFUCKINGBATMANWORK!!!!
ran fine for me on Win7 64x
pretty much like everyone said : you've tried doing everything on your own, now the only answer is google. every time you get a technical issue, there's bound to be someone else who had the same issue and made a thread about it on tech forums.. find that post and read people's responses, and you'll get your answer.
if you dont, go on Eidos's and Steam's forums and complain or something
I literally spent all day on google looking for an answer but after trying their solutions I've had no luck
might sound like a shot in the dark, but sometimes a defrag will fix gaming issues. Dirt 2 crashed my pc twice but after a defrag it was fine. Also when batman came out i played it no problems with 64 bit, i think that was Nvidia 190.xx or 195.xx drivers so maybe try those.
If you suspect physx you can try downloading the pc demo, it does not have physx. (i think its like a 2gb dl)
It works perfectly for me, the steam version anyways. Hopefully you put in the right cd key or it might not work. I think it needs to authenticate it and if it's wrong, it won't work. Then again maybe there was an error on your hardrive and it's showing signs it's deteriorating, or else maybe it's something to do with games for windows live which you can test if you have other games with it. If not, i'm not sure, maybe check the steam forums, they usually try to troubleshoot problems there and look for solutions.
I managed to get the cd authentication work earlier and it said it was fine, the hard drive isn't even a year old so I don't think it's deteriorating. GFWL works fine with RE5 and Dawn of War 2 so I don't think it's that. It's weird that it works on my 32bit Vista laptop.
@Victor17:
It didn't work with 190 whatever drivers so I upgraded to 260 whatever drivers. I'll try defragging it and see if that works, thanks for the tip
disconnected all usb devices even tried it in offline mode
no luck
I'm thinking maybe it's a software issue either something I have or don't have that is screwing with it
maybe it's because I have directx 11 on my PC , maybe that makes it not work
I'm out of solutions, how much googling have you done on the problem? Hopefully you will find a solution that works.
it gives me a message that says initializer for 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager' throws an exception
"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately."
"Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D,version=1.0.2902.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system can't find the specified file."
that's why I thought it was a directx problem
I have done an abundance of googling
" @badwhodo: I didn't know you could do that "google dxwebsetup
take the first link from Microsoft. Reinstall. Done.
i tried that before, the install fails
checking the error log it says it's because the version I have is more recent
I don't think there's a way to actually reinstall it
the install shouldn't fail.
and yes you can reinstall it.
try downloading it instead of the websetup
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/resultsForProduct.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=9C954C37-1ED1-4846-8A7D-85FC422D1388
Downloaded it, ran it, failed
message in the error file is:
11/07/10 22:04:17: infinst: Target file: 'C:\Windows\system32\d3dx9_30.dll'
Target file is Version 9.12.589.0
Source file is Version 9.12.589.0
11/07/10 22:04:17: infinst: Currently C:\Windows\system32\d3dx9_30.dll is newer than the one being installed.
I ran it on Win7 64 bit without a hitch. Bionic Commando Rearmed acted similar to what your going through. After a couple days pulling my hair out it turned out it was a particular video codec (can't remember exactly which one) from the Win7 Shark codec pack.
(You've likely seen these already in your own searches.)
This guy seems convinced it's Securom.
This guy says Realtek audio hates Batman.
Seems AVG antivirus is a possible culprit too.
Hope you get it working, it's a great game.
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